ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 November 1907, Page 12

ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

• ' New York, October 15. ban ■ Francisco was 'the scene last night of a fresh racial riot, in the course. of which ten Japanese were injured, two being soriously-wounded, whilo moro than a score of white men received cuts and bruises. Exaggerated reports of tho incident, stating that :, moro .than a dozen Japanese had been killed, created a scare this morning in ■ Wall Street, whero there was much oxcited talk of -a threatened renewal of tho disturbances to-night and a widespread apprehension qf war. The nervousness, however, was dissipated somewhat when- tho true facts of the fracas,, .serious as thoy wore, became kniwn.. The,author of the disturbances was an intoxicated lumberman named King, who smashed tho window of a Japanese laundry The proprietor, Unko Kobo, - immediately seized and dragged the drunkard to the rear of the shop, where a young Japanese armed with a gaspipe stood guard over him. Rumours that a white man had been taken prisonor by the Japanese spread like wildfire, and soon a formidable crowd gathered in front of the laundry and bombarded it with missiles of every description. The Japanese barricaded themselves inside tho shop, and resisted all the efforts of the mob to release tho prisoner. In five minutes the .'window panes of tho laundry were completely demolished. ' A large force of police was despatched to the scene of tho disturbances in automobiles. .'Sparing no one, and vigorously "plying their clubs, the polico forced a way to the laundry after inflicting a score of scalp wounds, and succeeded in dispersing the mob. King was then discovered slumboring peacefully at the back of he shop. Mt. Walker, lawyer of tho Japaneso Society of America,' is investigating tho affair with' a viow. to ail action for damages. Tho incident has oreated the most unpleasant impression throughout the country.